Ellen Rometsch

Spy + President

Female

Born1936

Age79

NationalityGerman

Ellen Rometsch was allegedly an East German Communist spy who was assigned on diplomatic cover to the West German Embassy in Washington, DC during the early 1960s. She is also widely thought in some Washington journalism circles to have been one of President John F. Kennedy's girlfriends during the height of the Cold War.… Read More

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During the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal in a February 17, 1998 Washington Times op-ed article, editor Wesley Pruden interpreted that tactic as what former Bill Clinton White House aide George Stephanopoulos meant when he said "The White House is being a bit disingenuous.
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When a real damaging charge comes out, someone speaking on background tries to answer it, which is another form of leak. There's a different long-term strategy, which I think could be far more explosive. Read Less

White House allies are already starting to whisper about what I'll call the Ellen Rometsch strategy" on ABC's This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts February 15, 1998.
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Soon after that statement, Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt offered $1 million for each unflattering sexual story about Republican members of Congress. Prospective Speaker of the House Bob Livingston (R-LA) resigned after one such story was made public about him by Flynt.<br /><br /> There is information on Rometsch in The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh. Read Less